Speaker Group: Business Leader

Rajiv Daya is the Head of Investments at Founders Factory Africa (FFA) where he leads a team responsible for investing in and securing follow-on funding for a growing portfolio of African FinTech, HealthTech and AgriTech startups. As at January 2022, FFA has invested almost $18m in 40 seed-stage startups across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Rajiv… Read more »

Alix Peterson Zwane is Chief Executive Officer of the Global Innovation Fund, a hybrid investment vehicle that accelerates evidence-based innovation through early-stage debt and equity investing, as well as grant-making. GIF is backed by leading bilateral aid agencies, corporates, and foundations and contributes to filling the pioneer gap between development assistance and development finance. Alix… Read more »

Hossam Abou Moussa has spent all his 20+ years career investing in growth markets with more than a decade dedicated to financial services. Prior to Apis Partners, Hossam Abou Moussa was a Partner at Actis, where he led a team of investment professionals that focuses on investing in the Financial Services sector across Africa, South… Read more »

• Ababacar Diaw is Managing Director at Impaxis Group and in charge of Advisory and Capital Markets transactions (M&A / ECM / DCM / Structured & Leveraged Finance) • Ababacar Diaw is also CEO of Impaxis Securities, the licensed broker and capital markets arm of the Group • Ababacar Diaw is a seasoned investment banker… Read more »

David Davies was named by Future Agro Challenge (FAC) as Global Agripreneur of the Year 2018 for his work as CEO of AgUnity and helping lift low-income farmers out of poverty. The work by David Davies and AgUnity has been globally recognised by the likes of IFC World Bank, Mastercard Foundation, UN Food and Agriculture… Read more »

Tarek Mouganie is the founder of Affinity, a full-fledged digitally-driven bank that provides affordable financial services to the underserved and unbanked, targeting eight out of the seventeen UN SDGs. Affinity has built channels for both digital natives and low fidelity users, enabling 24/7 banking services to the mass market at a low cost. In its… Read more »

Greg Swenson is a founding partner of Brigg Macadam Ltd, and emerging market investment banking firm in London. He has over thirty years of banking, alternative investments, and global markets experience. Greg Swenson held several positions at HSBC Global Banking and Markets, and spent his first eleven years in the industry at Lehman Brothers, holding… Read more »

Olusiji Aina, is a Development Economists and Impact Investing Specialist. He is a strategist with professional competency in building high impact market relevant skills for economic development, creating employment and promoting economic growth in Africa. Olusiji Aina is a Partner and West Africa Director with Impact Amplifier responsible for Strategic Business Development Deepening, Economic Development,… Read more »

As Chief Commercial Officer, Sebastien Duquet leads the development of SunFunder products and funds. He is particularly involved in the fundraising of the coming “Gigaton Empowerment fund”. From 20218 to mid 2021, as Chief Investment Officer, Sebastien Duquet was supervising the investment process, portfolio allocation and funds valuation of Symbiotics managed Sicavs – USD 1.8… Read more »

Suleiman Kiggundu is the Chief Investment Officer at Equator Capital Partners LLC, a private equity fund that manages the ShoreCap family of funds. He has 30 years experience in the financial services sector, having served in leadership roles at Equator Bank, HSBC Bank Plc and CDC Group Plc. Aside from chairing GA Insurance Uganda, I&M… Read more »